PEOPLE
President of Kuraya Narusawa Co., Ltd.
Chairman of Izunokuni City Tourism Association
Owner at Tōge Chaya

Chairman: Mr. Hidenori Date
President: Mr. Masahiro Date

Proprietor, Houraikan Inn
Representative Director of Egawa Bunko non-profit incorporated foundation
The 42nd head of the Egawa Family

Democratic Party for the People (DPP) Representative for Nagasaki Prefecture

President of the NPO, Way to World Heritage Gunkanjima

Representative Director
MI Consulting Group

President of Watanabe Production Group and Honorary Chair of Watanabe Productions Co., Ltd.

Member of the House of Councillors

Governor
Kagoshima Prefecture

World Heritage Consultant
Director and Dean, The Kyushu-Asia Institute of Leadership
Representative Director, SUMIDA, Inc.

Journalist, founder of the Shimomura Mitsuko Ikikata Juku School
Representative, Rally Nippon
Chairman, Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution World Heritage Route Promotion Council Director, National Congress of Industrial Heritage

Representative Director, General Incorporated Foundation National Congress of Industrial Heritage (Advisor, Public Interest Incorporated Foundation Capital Markets Research Institute)

Mayor of Nagasaki City
Policy Director at Heritage Montreal
World Heritage Consultant
Executive Director of Kogakuin University
Heritage Architect and International Consultant
Head of Data Acquisition at The Glasgow School of Art’s School of Simulation and Visualisation

Head of Industrial Heritage, Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh

Scottish Ten Project Manager, Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh

Mayor of Izunokuni City, Shizuoka Prefecture

Pro-Provost and Chairman of Council of the Royal College of Art. Heritage advisor of Canal & River Trust for England and Wales.

Dean of Tokyo Rissho Junior College
Professor emeritus of Keio University

Mayor of Kitakyushu City

At the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee convened in Bonn, Germany, from June 28 to July 8, 2015, the decision was approved to inscribe the Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution on the World Heritage list.
At a celebratory party held to mark the occasion, some of the primary promoters of the project spoke of their joy in achieving their goal and of the trials and tribulations to getting there.
Director and Managing Executive Officer, Hanshin Expressway Company Limited
Member, Board of Directors, National Congress of Industrial Heritage
Vice-Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture
Mayor of Hagi City

Chairman, Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd.
Mayor of Omuta City

Deputy Director-General, Lifelong Learning Policy Bureau, MEXT
Former Counsellor, Cabinet Secretariat
Mayor of Kamaishi City
Member, Board of Directors, National Congress of Industrial Heritage Counselor, Shimadzu Limited
Chairman of the Consortium for the World Heritage Inscription of Modern Industrial Heritage (Kyushu-Yamaguchi) and governor of Kagoshima Prefecture (as of 2015)